John Grindrod (author)

John Grindrod (born 1970) is an author of books about British architecture. He is from Croydon, London.

Works
His first book Concretopia (2013) covers British architecture in the post-war consensus period from 1945 and 1979.

His second book Outskirts (2017) is a mix of memoir and investigation of the Metropolitan Green Belt, which surrounds New Addington where Grindrod's family lived. This book was nominated for the 2018 Wainwright Prize.

His third book Iconicon (2022) covers British architecture from 1979 to the present day, including Barratt housing, Canary Wharf and the national devolution buildings in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

Grindrod also works for publisher Faber and Faber. He has written for the Guardian, Financial Times, the Twentieth Century Society Magazine and The Modernist.